THE ANTIQUITY OF REAPING MACHINES.
The following passage is translated from Pliny, as translated by Lyson, with his comments thereon :—" After stating that Pliny says the reaping-machine was known to the Gauls, and, if so, undoubtedly to the Briton's " Lyson proceeds " Pliny's description of the reaping-machine is most interesting, as showing that if there is anything new under the sun there is very little, In Book xvin. c. 30, ho says—" Of reaping there are various methods. In the bioad level fields of the Gauls enormous machines, with teeth set in a row placed upon two wheels, are driven through the standing corn, a horse (or rather a mare, ho uses tho word fimento, doubtless for mares being steadiest for such work) being attached to the machine backwards tho corn thus cut off fall info the furrow or barrow." Critics differ as to whether vallum, the word used, means a funvw or a barrow; itmeans both ? Are these proofs of barbarism ?—seeing that it is only about 20 years that the reaping-machine has been reintroduced among ourselves.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3090, 23 May 1881, Page 4
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